Skirt and dress-waist retaining device.



No. 727,167. PATENTED MAY 5, 1 903.

A. J. MAGQEBEENB. SKIRT AND DRESS WAIST RETAINING DEVICE.

' APPLICATION FILED M17114 1902.

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UNITED I STATE-s- Patented May 5, 1903.

ALICE J. MAOQUEENE, OF WINNETKA, ILLINOIS.

SKIRT AND DRESS-WAIST RETAINING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,167, dated May 5, 1903. Application filed November 14, 1902. Serial No. 131 ,299. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, ALICE J. MAooUEENE,

of Winnetka, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certainnew and This invention relates to a novel device for holding or retaining in its proper position the lower front part of a shirt-waist, more particularly of the kind which is designed for producing what is known as a straight -front efiect, and for holding down the dress-skirt band to produce a dip-front efiect.

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter set forth, and more particularly pointed out in the appended'clai'm.

In the drawings, Figure 1 illustrates the application of my improvement to a shirt-waist, the dress-skirt being dropped down to show the application of my. novel device to the shirt-waist. Fig. 2 illustrates the effect of the device at the front of the skirt-band. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of a corset to which the device is adapted to be attached, showing the device in position thereon, and the manner of securing the shirt-waist belt and skirt to the retaining device. Fig. 4 is a front perspective view of-the device removed from the waist. Fig. 5 is a rear perspective view thereof. 7 v

As shown in the drawings, the retaining device consists of a straight rigid sheet-metal plate A, which is. provided at its upper end with an outwardly and downwardly, turned j hook A and a stiff metal pinB,'which is affixed at one end to the rear face of the plate A, adjacent to the end remote from the hook The connection between the pin B and A. the stripA maybe} further strengthened by providing the lower end of the plate with a lip or extension at, which is adapted to be folded upwardly over thelowerend of the pin.

The application ofthe device described Mr retaining or holding down the lower front part of the shirt-waist is shown in Figs. 1, 2, and

3. Said device is located at the juncture of ?the waist and skirt and extends both above .and below said juncture, The pin B is inserted upwardly into the corset D to hold the same laterally in place. Conveniently said pin is inserted into the pocket containing one of the staysfD of the corset, so that there is no liability-of the point of the pin piercing the corset and injuring the wearer. Said pin .B-is alsoinserted through the free end 0 of the belt 0 of the shirt-waist C and through the skirt of the waist or that part below the belt, whereby the front lower part of the waist is held down in place. The ends of the belt may be secured together at the front of the waist by a buckle or maybe-tied, and in either case the free end of the belt is'drawn downwardly tightly against the corset or a garment outside of the corset and the pin thrust diagonally upwardly through the free end of the belt and into the corset in the manner shown in Fig. 3. The hook-plate A is located outside of the shirt waist and between the skirt-band and thecorset, and the hook A hooks over the upperrnargin of and acts to pull or draw the front central part thereof downwardly, as shown in Fig. 2, thereby giving a dip effect to the upper part of the skirt. The attachment of the pin B of the device to the waist serves to hold down the lower front part of the waist and to keep the front of the waist straight. The part of the hook shown as displayed above the skirt-band is concealed by the belt worn over the skirt-band and may be further concealed by a brooch clasped or secured to the belt immediately over said hook. When the holding device is in place and the skirt-band fastened, said band presses the plate or strip A closely against the corset, and the book A: is made narrow, so as to produce no objectionable protuberance at the front'of the waist, said hook being only wide enoug'hto receive the skirt-band.

The connection of the pin rigidly with the part of ashirt-waist and the upper front part i part constituting a rigid connection of the of a dress-skirt comprising a narrow plate shank with the plate.

provided at its upper end with a forwardly In testimony that I claim the foregoing as and downwardly ext-ending hook and a sharpmyinvention I affix-my signature, in presence I5 5 ened shank made longer than said plate and of two witnesses, this 10th day of November,

straight throughout its length, the free end A. D. 1902.

of said shank diver in from said plate the lower end of said 51st; being folded b aek- ALICE MAOQUEENE' wardly and upwardly parallel with the plate, Witnesses: :0 and formed to provide a socket in which the WILLIAM L. HALL,

lower end of the shank is seated, said folded GEORGE R. WILK-INs. 

